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Gap up on Coal India

On Coal India the gap up showed up 84 times. The target came first 39% of the time, the stop 55%, and 6% went nowhere within 12 candles.

Counted on Coal India: daily candles from January 2015 and hourly candles from October 2024.

By timeframe

TimeframeFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Daily2133%62%5%
Hourly6341%52%6%

Coal India against the rest

ChartsFoundTarget firstStop firstWent nowhere
Coal India8439%55%6%
All Indian stock market charts6,20039%54%6%
Every market12,76840%54%6%

Year by year

YearFoundTarget firstStop first
2019367%33%
2022333%67%
2024520%80%
20254639%54%
20262148%43%

The last 8 times

Counted by the Trading Class research engine on real past candles: entry at the signal candle's close, target 1.5 × ATR(14), stop 1 × ATR(14), 12 candles to decide, a candle that touches both counts as the stop. How we count. Past data, not a forecast and not advice.

What the gap up is

Price opened above the previous candle's high. It jumped up between the two candles.

Imagine a shop that shuts at night. While it is closed, everyone hears great news about a toy, so when the shop opens, the very first price is already above anything paid the day before. On a chart, a candle that starts above the top of the candle before it is called a gap up.

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Other patterns on Coal India

Inside bar · Stochastic bullish cross · Stochastic bearish cross · Spinning top · Volume profile rejection · Doji · MACD bullish cross · MACD bearish cross · EMA 9/21 bullish cross · EMA 9/21 bearish cross · all of them

The gap up elsewhere

Sensex · Nifty 50 · Bank Nifty · Bharti Airtel · Infosys · Mahindra & Mahindra · ICICI Bank · Hindalco · State Bank of India · Shriram Finance · Dow Jones · S&P 500 · Nikkei 225 · Sony

Questions

How often does the gap up work on Coal India?

In 84 cases on Coal India, the target (1.5 × ATR) came before the stop (1 × ATR) 39% of the time and the stop came first 55%; 6% went nowhere within 12 candles.

What is the gap up?

Price opened above the previous candle's high. It jumped up between the two candles.